[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] access to journals

In an effort to enhance access options for people who aren’t
affiliated with universities, colleges, or high schools,
not-for-profit digital library JSTOR has launched JPASS, a new program
offering individual users access to 1,500 journals from JSTOR’s
archive collection. The move follows the March 2012 launch of JSTOR’s
Register & Readprogram, which allowed independent researchers to
register for a free MyJSTOR account, and receive free, online-only
access to three full-text articles every 14 days. That service has
since attracted almost one million users including independent
scholars, writers, business people, adjunct faculty, and others, and
JSTOR plans to continue offering the service in its current form.
However, in a recent survey, many of Register & Read users expressed
interest in an individual subscription model that would offer enhanced
access, encouraging JSTOR to move ahead with JPASS.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] access to journals

If you've gone to university, it's well worth looking to see if your university provide alumni access.

My university, the University of London, provide alumni access to the library for £220 a year, which includes an eight book borrowing limit, full JSTOR access (which doesn't have the limitation that JPASS has), Oxford DNB access and some other online resources.

Some universities also charge the even better price of nothing.

I've put up a page in project space on English Wikipedia so we can document which institutions provide access:

In an effort to enhance access options for people who aren’t
affiliated with universities, colleges, or high schools,
not-for-profit digital library JSTOR has launched JPASS, a new program
offering individual users access to 1,500 journals from JSTOR’s
archive collection. The move follows the March 2012 launch of JSTOR’s
Register & Readprogram, which allowed independent researchers to
register for a free MyJSTOR account, and receive free, online-only
access to three full-text articles every 14 days. That service has
since attracted almost one million users including independent
scholars, writers, business people, adjunct faculty, and others, and
JSTOR plans to continue offering the service in its current form.
However, in a recent survey, many of Register & Read users expressed
interest in an individual subscription model that would offer enhanced
access, encouraging JSTOR to move ahead with JPASS.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] access to journals

Tom Morris, 24/09/2013 14:18:
> If you've gone to university, it's well worth looking to see if your university provide alumni access.

Speaking of which, if you find out how many FTE the university pays for
the alumni, I'd be interested in knowing (at least some departments in
my university would like to introduce such a program but negotiations
with publishers are so complex).

If you are interested in the topic of access to scientific/academic
literature, you should be there.
Getting access to "closed" journals is definetely something that we like
and must pursue,
but changing the very system of is more important.
We shouldn't have this issue at all :-)

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] access to journals

With regards to getting access to closed journals...
I'm now working for the National Library of Australia and we offer free, at
home, access to JSTOR and MANY other restricted access databases to any
Australian, if they get a free library card.
[You can see the full list at the NLA eResources page: http://www.nla.gov.au/app/eresources/ ]

Is this unique to Australia? I must admit that I didn't realise until
recently the extent of the restricted databases that were available for
free to library card holders in their own home. With all the discussion
over the years on the global Wikimedia mailing lists about trying to
special access for Wikimedians, I had just assumed it was a global issue.
But, at least for Australians, it's largely solved... Are other country's
major libraries offering journal access to the public for free? If not,
perhaps rather than trying to get special access for Wikimedians directly
from the Database companies, we should be working to get access via Library
subscriptions?

Liam / Wittylama.

[p.s. yes - I realise I'm promoting a service offered by my employer,
sorry. But I reckon it's relevant and important that people know though.
p.p.s. If you are Australian and want a free library card sent to you - go
here: http://www.nla.gov.au/getalibrarycard/ ]

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] access to journals

Wow Liam, I'm impressed! I'd love to have that accessibility with a library
card in Sweden.

As education is free here and universities offer various random courses one
may sign up and take a course distantly for a term or so and then through
student login get access to journals. I've never heard of a public library
making this available through a library card here in Sweden.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] access to journals

In the U.S. I encourage people to check out what database subscriptions
their local public library offers -- many larger public libraries offer a
surprising number of online journals & databases that are available to
anyone who has a library card, which you can generally get for free if you
live in the library's area (and sometimes for pay if you *don't* live in a
library's area -- especially if you are nearby). Additionally, some states
offer state-wide consortia deals on databases and subscriptions, so even
small public libraries have access to a wide range of materials. Also, if
you are close to a public university of some sort, the vast majority offer
on-site access to their online resources if you are physically on campus.

We do not, to my knowledge, have a national library program like what Liam
describes, but people in other countries should check and see if they do.

Standing offer: If you email me offlist, I will help you try to figure out
what library resources you might have access to :)

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] access to journals

To echo Phoebe and Tom:

I paid $250 for a lifetime alumni card at Berkeley, not because I attended,
but because the girl I was dating at the time was an alumna (she got free
lifetime access). Seriously, access to all their libraries for $250 for
life seemed great, especially with the interlibrary loan program that
enables me to get pretty much any book I want in the entire state
university system.

Then I move to San Francisco and found the SF Public Library gives me
pretty much the same access to databases and books and all of it for $0.00.
Now I want my $250 back ;)

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] access to journals

On 24 September 2013 14:06, Liam Wyatt <[hidden email]> wrote:
> I'm now working for the National Library of Australia and we offer free, at
> home, access to JSTOR and MANY other restricted access databases to any
> Australian, if they get a free library card.

> Is this unique to Australia?

My free library subscription in Birmingham, England, gets me access -
from home or indeed anywhere else - to a number of otherwise-paywalled
online databases and services <http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/libsubs>.
These include:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] access to journals

On 9/24/13 10:13 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> On 24 September 2013 14:06, Liam Wyatt <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> I'm now working for the National Library of Australia and we offer free, at
>> home, access to JSTOR and MANY other restricted access databases to any
>> Australian, if they get a free library card.
>> Is this unique to Australia?
> My free library subscription in Birmingham, England, gets me access -
> from home or indeed anywhere else - to a number of otherwise-paywalled
> online databases and services <http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/libsubs>.
>

In Denmark, and I believe most of the USA, the norm is only on-site
access to subscriptions, for the general public. University-affiliated
researchers do have the option to login remotely, or VPN in to get an
institutional IP address offsite. But the general public has to use
library computers to access the subscriptions, or (in some cases) their
own computers on the library WiFi.